I wanted to write a Junit test which tests a class which parses xml files. From within my application the class works fine and does not throw exception. When I try to run a JUnit test I get the exception java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xerces.parsers.StandardParserConfiguration at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser. (DOMParser.java:109) at de.wfb.xml.XmlTournament.getDOM(XmlTournament.java:73) at de.wfb.xml.XmlTournament.getTournament(XmlTournament.java, Compiled Code) at de.wfb.tests.XMLTest.testGetTournament(XMLTest.java:55) the relevant lines in class to be tested: import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser; import org.apache.xerces.do
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I wanted to write a Junit test which tests a class which parses xml files.
From within my application the class works fine and does not throw exception. When I try to run a JUnit test I get the exception

at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.
(DOMParser.java:109)
at de.wfb.xml.XmlTournament.getDOM(XmlTournament.java:73)
at de.wfb.xml.XmlTournament.getTournament(XmlTournament.java, Compiled Code)
at de.wfb.tests.XMLTest.testGetTournament(XMLTest.java:55)